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iPhoneless , but…

It’s going on two months since I gave my iPhone a coffee and cream bath. I put it in rice for a few days and it seemed to work fine for a day, then… Gone. When it will turn on, it reboots itself randomly. When it’s not rebooting itself, app store apps don’t launch. The [...]

Welcome to the corpocracy

Why Does Everything Suck (WDES) asks an excellent question: Why is it so easy for these huge private companies to get law enforcement to do their bidding? WDES is referring specifically to Apple, Inc., and AT&T, suggesting that they have somehow managed to get the local police force in Cupertino, CA, and the federal officials [...]

Engadget: The fate of a generation of workers: Foxconn undercover

You're like a component that's entered the assembly line, just following the rhythm, belonging to that heartbeat at 4am, no way to escape. via #.

Apple iPhone SDK prematurely declared great – Machinist

The SDK is plainly important. But it’s probably not yet revolutionary. ⇒

Apple First Quarter 2008 Results

What this line of thinking misses is that it’s wrong to think of the iPod simply as a digital Walkman. Better to think of the iPod as, say, “the best pocket-sized anti-boredom device Apple can make”. ⇒